Usually means: Unable to use literacy practically.
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We found 10 dictionaries that define the word functionally illiterate:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. functionally illiterate: Merriam-Webster
  2. functionally illiterate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. functionally illiterate: Vocabulary.com
  4. functionally illiterate: Dictionary.com
  5. Functionally illiterate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. functionally illiterate: Rhymezone
  7. functionally illiterate: FreeDictionary.org
  8. functionally illiterate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. functionally illiterate: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. functionally illiterate: Medical dictionary

(Note: See functional_illiterate as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (functionally illiterate)

adjective:  having reading and writing skills insufficient for ordinary practical needs


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